#TheKashmirFiles – Our Own Schindler’s List
Seldom do I use this platform to post anything on movies… In fact, people closer to me know, I’m not much of a movie guy. I don’t go to theatres. I watch movies on OTT platforms & I’m selective about them too. But, after watching #TheKashmirFiles, I was numb. The movie is a grey, painful, gory & bitter depiction of the pain and trauma of the Kashmiri Pundits (thru the eyes of a protagonist). The movie is a tight slap on every one of us (including Govts & Media) who brushed this genocide (not an exodus) under the carpet (to be goody-goody with the society) and pretended nothing happened.
Some may call it a political stunt, others may say it’s an untrue documentary. For me, the movie was a thick dip of reality, coz I met many KPs at Amritdham Ashram, Manchirevula (Telangana) who were eye-witness to similar terror and mayhem on their kith and kin.
These are the truths that need to be told, however unpleasant or provocative a few may consider them to be.
The flick was an eye-opening journey of too many emotions. With real people and real emotions, it makes you feel guilty and leaves you with many questions and wondering about the authenticity of many so-called projected facts portrayed about Kashmir for years… The movie shamed mankind! The movie is our own Schindler’s List (depicting the Holocaust of Jews by Nazis during WW II) that flies in the face of the official narratives about Kashmir and India.
The actors brought life to the movie doing full justice to their roles… Anupam Kher did not play a role in it- he just lived his past. Mithun Chakravarty, Pallavi Joshi and Darshan Kumar make us sit back and go back to that time. You get engrossed with the happenings through their fine acting skills.
“It is not the lies that we tell that are so reprehensible. It is the truths that we hide that destroy us.”
Salute to the director and producers of #TheKashmirFiles who have shown the courage to show the truth as-is to the world.
SALUTE TO THE RESILIENCE OF KASHMIRI HINDUS.